vivatel/Bulgaria/ launches its third generation HSDPA network

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The clients of vivatel receive the opportunity to make video calls and use mobile high-speed access to internet. The clients of vivatel now may use internet through their mobile phones at a speed of up to 1.8 Mbps Downlink and 384 kbps Uplink. They can make video calls, use high-speed internet, which gives the opportunity to access data, e-mails, as well as to download pictures, melodies, games, video clips, and there will be no need to change the settings at a speed up to 4.6 times higher than GPRS.

The customers of the operator may take advantage of the high speed which is possible through the 3G platform at the most affordable prices for mobile data transfer.

To clients who actively use the service of data transfer vivatel offers additional packages for mobile internet for the subscription plans or the special subscription plan vivatel traffic.

The additional data packages which may be bought for each of the subscription plans offer 30 МВ for BGN 9 per month or 100 МВ for BGN 18 per month. In such manner the price of 1 МВ in the package reaches up to BGN 0.18.

At present, vivatelalso offers the most available subscription plan for data transfer on the mobile market - vivateltraffic – with included 1024 МВ for BGN 36 per month, i.e. the price of a МВ in the package is BGN 0.035. The price of a МВ after the exhaustion of the included MB is just BGN 0.30.

The standard price for 1МВ which all business and private clients of vivatelpay is BGN 2.40 and the minimal pricing is per 1КВ.

vivatel offers also the most competitive price for a video call. A minute of a video call on vivatel’s network will cost BGN 0.49 or up to 33% lower than the most competitive price on the market at present.

„It is a pleasure that as of today the clients of vivatel will have the opportunity to benefit the advantages of the third generation technologies at the most competitive prices in the country”, stated the CEO of vivatel Richard Shearer. „The new service is another proof that vivatel is the engine of the strengthening of the competition on the mobile market in the country and it strives to offer highly qualitative and innovative products and services at affordable prices”, he added.

As of the 17th of April 2007, all of the clients of vivatel subscription plans can take the advantage of the service. All clients of the operator will have access to the 3G network by default. The customers will need a handset which provides for 3G standard and they will have to be within the coverage of vivatel’s 3G network. Detailed information may be found at www.vivatel.bg as well as in the General Terms of the operator.

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Does anybody know if prepaid customers are admitted to vivatel's 3G network? And is there 3G coverage at Slanchev Brjag/Sunny Beach?